Quotable Quotes

Quotable Quotes:


Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.

- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

 - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859)
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

- Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859)
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy

This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

- Western Union internal memo, 1878

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

 - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
 British mathematician and physicist

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

- Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977

The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.’ - Robert Metcalfe, internet inventor

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

- Popular Mechanics, 1949

We have reached the limits of what is possible with computers.

- John Von Neumann, 1949

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943

Carbon Dioxide is a dangerous pollutant             - Barack Obama  POTUS 2009